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Here is the TAB/Notation for the “String Skipping” exercise in the style of guitar great Robert Fripp.
This 12 tone concept was taken from the brilliant 12 chromatic forms of jazz great Pat Martino.
EXERCISE– Analysis:
I am staring this little etude/exercise on an “Up” stroke with alternate picking guitar technique.
As an example here is the first part:
The key to be aware of, is the exploitation of “Octave displacement”. This creates unique harmonies and S.A.T [B] style lines.
As you can see, in the diagram above this is just the chromatic scale, but, moving/resolving through the different registers.
This octave displacement technique, offers us a way to create/extract interesting colourful music from the chromatic scale, whilst, keeping us far away from one string banality.
Although, there is octave displacement, there is also some basic scale parts to link it all together:
I am starting both of these scale fragments on an“Up” stroke with strict alternate picking once again:
Also, the last part descends back into the chromatic scale to tie the [Composition] etude back together and give clarity to the ear, and let it know that we are still in an atonal chromatic form.
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